GPL Ghostscript

Download Source:	http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ghostscript/gnu-ghostscript-8.62.0.tar.bz2
Standard Fonts:	http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
Other Fonts:	http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ghostscript/gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz

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Introduction to GPL Ghostscript

The GPL Ghostscript package provides an interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF file format, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language, and a wide variety of output drivers for various file formats and printers.

Project Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html

Dependencies

Optional

• CUPS
• Gtk2

Non-Multilib

The following causes -fPIC to be passed to the compiler when building shared libraries:

sed -i "s/CFLAGS='/&-fPIC /g" src/unix-dll.mak

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr  &&
make

To build the shared libgs.so library you must have GTK+ installed and issue the following command:

make so

Install the package:

make install

If you built the shared library, install it and the associated programs by issuing the following commands as the root user:

make soinstall &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/include/ps &&
install -v -m644 src/*.h /usr/include/ps &&
ln -v -s ps /usr/include/ghostscript

Multilib

32Bit

The following causes -fPIC to be passed to the compiler when building shared libraries:

sed -i "s/CFLAGS='/&-fPIC /g" src/unix-dll.mak

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib" USE_ARCH=32 \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" \
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To build the shared libgs.so library you must have GTK+ installed and issue the following command:

make so

Install the package

make install

If you built the shared library, install it and the associated programs by issuing the following commands as the root user:

make soinstall &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/include/ps &&
install -v -m644 src/*.h /usr/include/ps &&
ln -v -s ps /usr/include/ghostscript

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TO DO!

64Bit

The following causes -fPIC to be passed to the compiler when building shared libraries:

sed -i "s/CFLAGS='/&-fPIC /g" src/unix-dll.mak

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64" USE_ARCH=64 \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 &&
make

To build the shared libgs.so library you must have GTK+ installed and issue the following command:

make so

Install the package

make install

If you built the shared library, install it and the associated programs by issuing the following commands as the root user:

make soinstall &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/include/ps &&
install -v -m644 src/*.h /usr/include/ps &&
ln -v -s ps /usr/include/ghostscript

Fonts

To finish the installation, unpack all fonts you've downloaded to /usr/share/ghostscript

tar -xvf ../ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz -C /usr/share/ghostscript
tar -xvf ../gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz -C /usr/share/ghostscript

Ensure the ownerships of the files are root:root:

chown -v root:root /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/*